BUSINESS minster Nick Boles has been savaged by BBC Breakfast’s Charlie Stayt this morning after the Tory MP backed David Cameron.

MP Mr Boles was blasted as “deluded” when defending Mr Cameron following the admission the Prime Minister and his wife sold thousands shares worth £30,000 connected to an offshore account just before he was elected to the lead the Government.

Cameron admitted the shares were bought from his father's firm Blairmore in 1997, during an interview with ITV's Robert Peston last night, adding he sold them off for £30,000 in January 2010.

Despite facing calls for the PM to resign, his business minister Nick Boles has denied that the Conservative leader has done anything wrong.

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He told the BBC: "I think what people do want to see is that anybody who benefits from any kind of investment, or receives any income, that if they are a UK citizens they pay UK taxes in full.

"What is clear is the Prime Minister paid that tax in full on these holdings of interest in this trust and so therefore there's no question at all that he avoided any tax through this investment."

Responding to presenter Mr Stayt's question as to whether he thought the PM had done "nothing wrong over the past four days", he said: "What has been difficult here is there has been an absolute cacophony of attacks on his father and he loved his father very much.

"His father died six years ago and isn't here now to defend his own reputation, and I think there's a natural human instinct to, you know, rush to the defence of your dad and try and prevent people form intruding into his life and into the life of your family.”